I've just read through 2 pages of the sincere and serious replies. Because the net speed from China was quite slow so I have prepared to read it today only to find it vanished like a vapor.

If the thread has violated any Neowin's rule you'd given me a notice or a private message, but I received none.

I"ve been complaining China's obscurantism about its notorious online filter and "great wall," and now this American site downgraded itself to follow suit this ungraceful behavior?

The only comfort that I have had is that I've copied some replies. Here's one for memory:

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?Then he is not omnipotent.Is he able, but not willing?Then he is malevolent.Is he both able and willing?Then whence cometh evil?Is he neither able nor willing?Then why call him God?"

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Please, cherish the intelligence rescource contributed by global members of Neowin.

Free Speech is one of the universally applicable values which should be available here.

Some replies were probably childish, as you've pointed out; but there were wise ones as well. The latter is much similar to what Francis Collins explained in his book The Language of God, which quite amazed me.

Francis Collins, director of NIH, known for his leadership in Human Genome Project.

not to start this into a huge debate... but remember this is a private forum, aka owned by private owners, not a public government entity, free speech isn't necessarly protected here... so to say "Free Speech is one of the universally applicable values which should be available here." yeah great and all, but Steve has the final say on what can and can't be said here as it's not a "public" entity, aka owned by the government where free speech is protected at

The "classical" answer to the problem of evil, in line with St. Augustine, is that a universe with evil may be overall better than a universe without - God allows evil to exist because a greater good may arise from it. See http://www.newadvent...then/05649a.htm for a good introduction on the topic.